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We loved your play.We only have problems with your main character, the second act and the ending.
Coldly, sadly descends The autumn evening. The field Strewn with its dank yellow drifts Of withered leaves, and the elms, Fade into dimness apace, Silent;hardlya shout From a few boys late at their play!
You have now done your work and may go play, unless you will fall out amongst yourselves.
Acta est fabula. The play is over.
Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play.
Darling, they've absolutely ruined your perfectly dreadful play!
What a polite game tennis is. The chief word in it seems to be 'sorry'and admiration of each other's play crosses the net as frequently as the ball.
Soisthisgreat and widesea, whereinarethings creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts. There go the ships: there is that leviathan, whom thou hast made to play therein. These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give them their meat in due season.
Where's the stage and what's the play?
The winter wind is loud and wild, Come close to me, my darling child; Forsake thy books, and mateless play; And, while the night isgathering grey, We'll talk its pensive hours away. Brooke
Better than a play.
Courtship to marriage, as a very witty prologue to a very dull play.
It is as if Homer not only chronicled the siege of Troy, but conducted the siege as well. As if Shakespeare set his play writing aside to lead the English against the Armada.
Damn them, see how the rascals use me! They will not let my play run, and yet they steal my thunder!
If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z.Work is x ; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
If she can stand it, I can. Play it!
It signifies nothing to play well and lose.
Do you know how they are going to decide the Shakespeare^Bacon dispute? Theyare going to dig up Shakespeareand dig up Bacon; theyaregoing toget Tree to recite Hamlet to them. And the one who turns in his coffin will be the author of the play.
It's taken me all my life to learn what not to play.
Not only will I not play it, but if Rex Harrison doesn't do it, I won't even go to see it.
A play for me never really takes on an aspect of reality until it has left the dryair of the study and begins to sniff the musty breezes of a bare stage.
The youths at cricks did play Throughout the merry day.
I saw his play under bad conditions. The curtain was up.
Close the playand keep the store open nights.
It's a play that after you've been there for a short while, you wonder how long this isgoing to take.
Ladies and gentlemen, unless the play is stopped, the child cannot possibly go on.
O it'sTommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Tommy, go away'; But it's'Thank you, Mister Atkins,'when the band begins to play.
For what's a play without a woman in it?
To put it vulgarly, the whole trouble with a folk song is that once you have played it through there is nothing much you can do except play it over again and play it rather louder.
That bat that you were kind enough to send, Seems (for as yet I have not tried it) good: And if there's anything on earth can mend My wretched play, it is that piece of wood.
It is much easier to playa thing quickly than to play it slowly.
Theactionoftheplay takesplace onanisland intheWest Indies as not yet self-determined by White Mariners. The form of native government is, for the time being, an Empire.
Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shootingthere are quite enough realcauses oftroublealready, and weneed not add to them by encouraging young men to kickeach other on the shins amid the roars of infuriated spectators.
Now that you've got me right down to it, the only thing I didn't like aboutThe Barretts ofWimpole Street was the play.
House Beautiful is play lousy.
Le dernier acte est sanglant, quelque belle que soit la come die en tout le reste; on jette enfin de la terre sur la te" te, et en voila' pour jamais. The last act is bloody, however fine the rest of the play. They throw earth over your head and it is finished forever.
To the King'sTheatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I ever saw in my life.
Some time ago, in an interview that turned towards the Theatre, I suggested that 'Pubic hair is not an adequate substitute for wit'. My point now is that depending upon shock tactics is easy, whereas writing a good play is difficult.
My soul; sit thou a patient looker-on; Judge not the play before the play is done: Her plot hath many changes, every day Speaks a new scene; the last act crowns the play.
What is our life? a play of passion; Our mirth the music of division; Our mothers' wombs the tiring-houses be Where we are dressed for this short comedy. Heaven the judicious sharp spectator is, That sits and marks still who doth act amiss; Our graves that hide us from the searching sun Are like drawn curtains when the play is done. Thus march we, playing, to our latest rest, Only we die in earnestthat's no jest.
Play ball! Means something more than runs Or pitches thudding into gloves! Remember through the summer suns This is the game your country loves.
I stand for the square dealnot merely for fair play under thepresent rules of thegame, but for having those rules changed, so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunityand of reward for equally good service.
Wesitand lookout attheboysintheir happy playwe kneel still with one little cheek wistfully pressed against the paneand we go and stand before the glass.We see the complexion we were not to spoil, and the white frock Then the curse begins to act upon us. It finishes its work when we are grown women, who no more look out wistfullyat a more healthy life; we are contented.We fit our sphere as a Chinese woman's foot fits her shoe, exactly, as though God made bothand yet he knows nothing of either.
In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshipper and the worshipper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three. It is, in short, the dream of a madman.
[a character in Mr Puff's play within a play,'The Spanish Armanda'] Perdition catch my soul but I do love thee. : Haven't I heard that line before? : No, I fancy not.Where pray? :Yes, I think there is something like it in Othello. : Gad! now you put me in mind on't, I believe there isbut that's of no consequence; all that can be said is, that two people happened to hit upon the same thoughtand Shakespeare made use of it first, that's all.
The Soviet game is chessours is poker.We will have to play a creative mixture of both games.
With a tale forsooth he cometh unto you, with a tale which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner.
They said,'You have a blue guitar, You do not play things as they are.' The man replied,'Things as theyare Are changed upon a blue guitar.'
Women enjoyed (whatsoe'er before they've been) Are like romances read, or sights once seen: Fruition's dull, and spoils the play much more Than if one read or knew the plot before; 'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear; It were not heaven, if we knew what it were.
Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
A good many inconveniences attend play-going in any large city, but the greatest of them is usually the play itself.
A novel is a static thing that one moves through; a play is a dynamic thing that moves past one.
The play was a great success, but the audience was a disaster.
The play left a taste of lukewarm parsnip juice.
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